Ice Hotel in Hokkaido

A reporter checks out the Ice Hotel in Shimukappu Village, Hokkaido:

The inside of the ice room is so cold that his meal freezes before he can eat it. Although the water in the room’s bathtub is quite hot, water dripping from the bathtub faucet has turned into an icicle.

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10 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 22, 2009 at 6:53 am

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RYO

Loved his reaction to the cold bath. Here in eastern Canada, we had a bit of a cold snap last week where the daily high temps never got above minus 20 (before wind-chill adjustments) for several days in a row. It’s a veritable heat wave now at minus 10!

I imagine that an ice love hotel would not be too popular, especially among those afflicted with performance anxiety.

kaito

-20 c or f?

kaito

I assume -20c since your in Canada, but just making sure.

RYO

C it is. You are correct.

Paul K

Oh no, -3ºC?
Greg

What a freakin’ girl. It’s not that cold.
PenguinMaster

lol -3ºC we had -25ºC ~ -30ºC last week in quebec (not counting other factors)
http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

I loved his reaction in the bath.
“atsu, atsu, … demo samui” ^^

-3°C is cold if you’re not accustomed to it, especially if you don’t wear clothes.

In Germany, the lowest temperature this January was about -30°C, fortunately not where I live. ^^ I only had to endure -12°C.
Randwulf

When I arrived in Japan in January ’90, coming from Ontario which had temps of -35 C with the windchill, the +5 C temps were “warm” enough for me to walk around in short sleeve shirts much to the amazement of the shivering people around me. The summer passed and fall set in and I was shivering just as much as the people around me, at those same +5 C temps! *grin*
Rita Skeeter

Coming as someone from a relatively average place (and not Canada, for example), -3C is REALLY COLD! Nobody could pay me enough to stay at a hotel like that. I wonder if they’ve ever had anybody die on them from hypothermia??

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